Aubrey is a simple laborer in his forties -- the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of teenager no one can ignore. And sexy, half-crazed Dotty needs a way out of their small Vermont town -- fast. Soon she's highjacked Aubrey, his father-in-law's truck, a jar of dimes and a stranger's baby, and they're dizzily on the road . . . "A startling and powerful debut . . . hums with both the authenticity of real life and the mythic power of fable . . . dazzling." -- The New York Times